The Liberator from Boston, Massachusetts • 3

Ml iXSK Xx A ua specimen oif wtrtt ufey'exnnfl win become the acme vouchsafed to the petitioners their i 4 I 4 zens are petitioning Congresiparid I Jr 7 A i MagO SO that spirit whichiexcludes from the the doings of "the Board all notice Bw 6 bells to pot 'down arrest tenced to pay fines 4 i't? 'SSSB3SBB ib: gp? st sW xn jhe: PUBLIC fj rhe unlersigned ask the Attention of after the HtJll was opened for the as the Board rc being materially different Darkness settled ba the 'cUJfi grogahop Udma ed bytheeityauihoritM for public food and gam bling hells' the haunts of slaveholders and kidnappers began to disgorge their inmates? The Ledger office wna their first object ofattack becauSa that paper edit ea oy jstvis Baaieanemiy conacmnea urc uvurga the mob and city authorities together yilb kidnflpper andmenstealera Many collected lata in the evening NoCenough io make the attack several of the mob were sent indifferent directioos to bring the scattered forces to a poinr Soon thousands earner rashing from various quarters to the acene at action ButfrOtn some catise the moboerats did not attack the bnildingi They roamed' about I the city unmolested most of the night' It is 'reported this morning that they' threw stones at several private dwellings and that 7 several med were Itilleddunngtnemgnt inoixin street They did not attack Edward Needle Wbrtak open any private5 dwelling 'that can learni It is said they stoned tSe Bethgl where oppressed brethren and" sisters worship The'' banks were1 threatened last nighlJ The mayor then began to himself and io down the mob with grape and cannon shot thus showing his to inurder his fellow men to protecLthe' property of therich while he wottld o( in cur the displeasure of the mob by bold rebuke and ex postulation to extend protection to those generous no Jwonien who are ready to peril life for the principles 4of human freedom find for hynjfotrights: yesterday Judge Todd of the citygave A Especial charge to the Grand Jury Accordingtohia testimony the chyrsiuce last Wednesdayhas been under the do ml nioff of a mobrtft Our properties our liberties and our' longerseeure Weareit would seem at themercy of a mob Wonder he did not iearmthat before)! Our institutions and our laws havebeen trampled upon and contemned WE EVEN IN ssTHEiTEMPLE jOE JUSTICE' ARE MERE TENANTSBY SUERANCE rom this cooing from adjudge of the court you' may1 infek what fias the condition of this city the last four days' and nights! My soul is pained not that the mayor did not unsheathe the sword call out the military qpep a path to order through the Hood of thousands and cut his wayfopeace and tran'quillitf through the very bowels of humanity thus involvingthimself thecityin the trim? of foul and inexcusablemurder butjthat the civil authorities of thislfar famedmty of brotherly love and so an yofi ta cit rtetis should bar bdrin their hearts such a spirit offamlignant bitter ha 41 tred to the colored man should shrink like cotfatds before the brutal blustering xage of southern kidnap pers and should be th dupes pf that scheme of fraud thy Colqniziion Society ani so ready to offer up themselves and the whole theshrine of that spirit of slavery that 4 breathes nojh ing and can breathe nothing bu the spirit oj thbot tomless I was forbidden onnday lash by four soqthefn k(dnappers onj pain of death ever again to call siavenoiuers imeves auuiuuucmu me vnj mi here repeat what I repeated to hat I knoweyery slaveholder of the every man that claims a right'tojhdhfandjuse men as propeityXbe he professed minister or Christian be be LegislatoJudge Governor President WANTHIEg and aROB BER I say this not defiance and bravado but with asolem'n conviction that it is the slaveholder will never repent never humblehimself before his crushed victim till the world looks upon him and he looks upon hipn self as more degraded than tW till his true character is known and read of all men To the outraged slave and to me hisbrotherand fel low sufferer the slaveholder who claims a right jyaf fic in our bodies and to use us mere instra merits tp his jutaLJusts tud love of dominion D7 or though he be islittle else than a fiend ih carnate There is but one' step further in: human crime 1 Philadelphians arouse yourselves! Now is the time i twT iWiniirMi voke fas tenedon your necks by southern kidnappers Purify your courts and never again allow your brother who flees to you for refuge from southern tyrants tobe cdr ried back othe landf chains anh whips There stand the blackened your Temple' of Liberty I a monument of southern insolence and tyranny over yoti If the scoies1 of the last four days occasioned pu rely by the fetation of southern kidnappers will not fe nroitse you your backs to the burden kiss'f the iron hoof of crouch and crih geto southern threats' to' southerndaggqrs bowie knives' aqd let 'the tyrant' his foot Uponyour necksJJutl know this outrageon your rights will arguse every no ble heart amongyouand herVeyonup to deeds of high hnd holy daring injiehalf ofcrushedandbleedinghu how throw yourselves into' the minenf deadly breach in the pinoply of Christ prepared' to take your part with the suffering andAhe dumb presenting to4he of pirate in every the resistless weapons of love forgiveness 7 ftThe "American Union have lately given signs of life by publishing a volume of 1 Letters from theWest In by Sylvester Hoyey Professor in Amherst College a work neither so so muchrin detail as that ofThome and Kimball but perhaps its statements coming frppnwavows himself neither anabpli iionist(por a cqlorizationisimay have weight withtbosewho (swnitotcier abolitionism conchaive eyi of falsehood'MrHoveyagrees with Thome and Kimball iri hisrepreeDtations ofjhe result pi the nrXc nrl tlip fAllnwirnr VY UU VA jv a sions look as if the slavesjwere rrndyjor freedom7 for immediate emanciyaUonJjand whynptjin 7 With regard to the preparation necessary for eman cipation the experiments the West Indies show that 4 is at least' essential on the part of the master' as op that of the slaves for in no 'cat has thejmceess of 'te experiment been endangered by thamduetof the negroef which can by no meansbe said of the planters especially 7C The been long taught unlimited qbe dience inthe school ofTindividual and irresponsible po wrt it will Vtdt appear surprising that they readily submit to the milder and more reasonable: requisitions of civil authority They manifest ly incapacity 40 un dershtnd the nature law so far as it applies to lheip amTas was1 universally admitted are peculiarly awed byits forms I heard oGnd instances in which tWy had resisted civil arm or Refused io arqwescciujhe decisions of "a legal tribunal page 1 1 Now if this be the case in Jamaica where safs Sir Lionel Smith the Governor1 the negroes are in a de plorably backward' state in' point of adds Hoy ey7 ppd moral Cultivation much bebindxbe other surely it 3a possible and probable result in ivirginiaahd The following confessions I look upon as peculiarly important coming from one not an aboliliunistit rThey ary put forth as principles established bk ihe experiment in the West 'rt Emancipation instead of promoting aspirit of insur rectionia the surest means of eradicating tt Many of the tropps in the colonies: are andit is supposed that a small force composed of negroes to man the garrisons will eventually sufficient for theyr p173' "ri second general principle confirmed by the perhnent of the emancipation 'in the 'West Indies! that there isxfd difficulty in obtaining labor: from 1 ber ated slaves for foil riateas A third general pritfeipfe? fluted rhe history of emancipationnn the West Indies that Tree labor is as cheap as slave labor If in the begin ning of the experiment and under many disadvantages free labor is as cheap as slave labor what may be ex nected in a more advanced state of the system it XV pM We are frequently met with am objection thatfre colored people ore1 never ablr to support themselves The following piciure by those 'whd'cdnnpc be suspect ed bf partiality to aColitioh' of he cefidition'of the cob ored race when the law aUon them to take cure of them selves will heljp to answer We have no right id judgebftheir paciiyft6m whatweseer'atthe South UBLICS' The undersigned ask the attention of their felldw ciriX izens to the following statement are autboruedl toihake it in' behalf of one hundred and 1 twenty four legal voters of thepty of Boston who presented a pett tion to the Mayor and Aldtnnen on the 14th insist Maying the use aheuik Hall for the purpose of 'f holding therein on the 31st of Nay at 2 PM a public meeting of citizens in favor of the immediate abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia On the 14th inst this petition was laid on the table But after earnest request on our part it Was taken up at the meeting of the Board on 'the 21st inst and re jecled i On the 26th the undersigned addressed a communi cation to theBoard of which the followingiis a copy sw To the Mayor and Aldermen Uo Gextlsmkn The undersigned have been authorized to act as a committee of one hundred and twenty four legal voters of the city of Boston who recently petition ed fof the use 'of aneuil Hall for the purpos? of hold ing therein on the31sf meeting of those oppos ed to slavery and the slave trade in the Distrist of Col liiai r'i 4 'hiia The petition tn question was rejected by your Board on Monday last? The object of has been approved by sol cmn votes of the last legislature of this Commonwealth passed witlj unexampled unanimity and the petitioners! are unwilling to acquiesce silently and at once in the summary rejection 'of their petitions lest it might appear (what they trust is not the case) that in 'their attempts to purifytbe capital of obr common country from sla verytathey are without the sympathy dhd good wishes of the municipal authorities of this moral and ttThe undersigned ire now directud tosolicitare con sidera tion and reversal of the decision of 'yours Board a or in' case this should granted most respectfully' do request your vBoarcl no state the grounds on Ijie petitioners aief denied privilege so usually accord" ed to any respectable body of (inen having a common object 1 This application came before the Board at its meeting yesterday afternoon and was laid onthe table prpthatKi' is virtually rejected! v1 In glancing over the Records the Board of Alder men for the last eighteen months we find there have been besides our own fifteen applications for the use of aneuil Hall coming from menof the most various opinions and with comparatively unimportant objects1 ourteen of these have been prompt ly granted One onlywas rejected bleed we say that this was the pe tition of WM ELLERY HANNING ancTothers for a meeting to commemorate suitably the on life order and freedom pat Alton I The Board howev A er even in that case vouchsafed to the petitioners their reaions for the reasons twhielj will we dqubt hot bei long remembered by our fellow citizens and in less than a week after the HtJll was opened for the same purpose marked at the time We leMrn that individual members of the Board aver stated in private conversation that our petition for the Hall bn1 the 31st inst was rejected ini consequence of its being engaged for the dinnerof the Medical Society One word will be a sufficient reply to this' The dinner of the Medical Society takes place on Wednesday i while our application was for Thursday afternoon We may that we hlave receive in answer to our in 1 a communication 'from the person who has been employed for s'everal years past in rutting up the tables for public dinners in aneuil Halidin which he Writes that the Haji may be readily cleared of bles in half daf and in much less time if required i and that the expense of putting tip and removing them Would not exceed ten ellow citizens wrald 'anedil Hall in similar cir cumstances havebeen refused! tomtherof the powerful political parties in oir city 'We'are not tinaware that the Board of Aidermen are entrusted a discretionary power over aneuil Hall but this discretion was not given them to be ex or capriciously put impartially on It was not intended to invest them a over obiriions of to enable them to stig nlatfee by invidious distinctions or contemptuous treat deed peen' cheered by the countenance of the State The Legislature has twice opdiied the State house to But the Cradle Of' Liberty though rocked two yedfs since by the Apologists for slavery has never yet been allowed to pasjs for one hour into the hands of the friends of universal freedoid We are not allowed 1 to be heard on that saCrdd spot to believe' as is sdnietim'es intimated that our city government reallv starfds in terror of a mob ords it feared that if hegru we may convince Is it that 1 grow pale test their own judgments should become too bright And free thoughts becrimes and earth have too much light? feel it to be cur duty td the cause we and to the coinmuni in which we live mot to let these facts pass 1 in silent Should sneak out in 1 report of the doings If sro NEW ENGLAND ANTI SLAVERY CONVEN The present is un important week for the anti slavery cause in New England The Convention will organize this morning (Wednesday) at 8 'business in the vestry of the Chapel' a publicmeeting is to be held iu the Chapel this afternoon 3 also to morrow (Thursday) morning 9 in the same place lt is intended also to hold public meetings in the Chapcl on riday forenoon afternoon and evening at which time the Convention will 'proba bly adjourn Our paper'goes to prfes ted early to ena ble us to give any account of the proceedings 1 tn cur present number The 'delegates into the city from all quarters amount of the talent and eloquence of the country fWc aniici pate highly interesting meetings The late Vandal sets in Philadelphia wilt give a new impulse the Convention1 ti' To the Editor of the Liberator Dsar I perceive by the notice given by the A Convention that there is 'nomention of a meeting to be held any evening this week trust such is not the intention of the directorsbf the meeting If the fear of a mob is the causc bcUer that the Yee Church should be converted into its original stale a Stable I trust and hope that 1 am mistaken in regard to the movements ofjhe party If not I shall be dis appointeliti common with many other young men of this city JEERSON should have clearly perceived ere this 'that abolitionists whether in Boston or elsewhere arevnot'ihe men ay or the women to be from holding their either in the day time or erenrogtvthe fear of a It is ho fear them not they the mob The only reason why the Convention holds no public meeting this (Wednesday) evening or to morrow (Thursday) evening is because it can obtain no other suitable bui Iding than the Marl Chapel in this citypand as the' Chapel is'to be occupied thbse evenings by other societies Conven tion of course 'juse itVOn riday however during the day and evening we believeit is the design of the Convention to hold public meetings in the Chapel which will then be at their service Due notice will be given of the arrangement? Efforts were made before the Chapel was completed to secure it three flays successively of the present week for theNE Conven tion burns so many other benevolent and religious associations wished to occupy it during the same period the managers of the $Chapel declined granting the re quest This explanation will we presume satisfy our whether he be an abolitionist jealous lest some concession shall be made lb mobpcracy or an enemy eager to excite tumult bn ascertaining when Afavorable opportunity will present itself for so doing 5 To be remembered 211 ye were of the said Jesus to his disciples the world would love his own? The persecution which' abolitionists are receiving at the hands of jthe violent the drunken the profane the un godly throughout this blood stained land whenever they lift upthe 1 voice of Warning and supplication in behalf of the oppressed is demonstrative proof that they are actuated by a spirit jyith which a dark and rebel lious world have no affinity Remember? the word that I said unto yoirThe servant is not greater than his lord If they haves persecuted me they Will? also persecute Take another test It cannot be denied that fcirthal is lawless oppressive unprincipled and murderous is arrayed in deadlyhostility to the persons dnd property the principles and measures ol the aboli tionists? It is'not less certain that abolitionists as a body their enemies being judges are conspicuous for their peaceable behaviour their zeal in every good en terprise their lowliness 'of mind their willingness to suffer rather than do wrong their regard for the rights of alLmin their uncompromising opposition to popular vice Who are xhe most fearless consistent unwavering friends of the Temperance cause if not the abolitionists riiimtrtue oretically 'andpractically to advance the cause of Peace as themselves? Who feeYti deeper interest in the purification of the laud from the pollution of licen tiousness Who are better neighbors or better husbands or better moralists or chris lare more ready to relieve the poor and needy to succor the outcast to bind up the broken hearted to'condesceud to men of lowjestatej to engage in every benevolent and holy enterprise Who hold up the precepts and examples of Jesus Christ more constantly than they Who are hated like themselves for refusing to be respecters of persons for rejoicing in the fact that Gofl has mqde of one blood bll nations of men for denouncing! the heathenish spirit of cdste Say we these things exiiltingly God forbid being true what shall be sflftfof their revilers and per secutors Most (certainly the wrath which is visited upon the heads of abolitionists is jnot all eXCitted by aj knowledge of the fact that they are the" enemies of sla very No? 'It is because they are Known to set their faces like a flint against war intemperance lewdness profanity and immoralityof every kind that vial after vial of indignatioiV is "poured out upon them seeing they are determined the sins of this na tion no rest and to pronounce a woe upon all who' are at Zion? '7 How' to xror irst be inflamed tto personal madness' against the advocatas of liberty then get as many lawless madmen to join in a riotous assault upon them as money and rum can purchase then un der cover of night make an attack with brick and deadly weapons upon a peaceable assefnbly of men and women whose principles forbid thein to return evil for evil then set fire to the building in which they had congregated and consume it td ashes under the shelter of the city authorities then apply the toreh fo an asy lum for orphan children then make an assault upon the private dwellings of the most exemplary followersof (William Penn then demolish the windows' die' fee of certain meeting houses then attempt to destroy cer tain printing offices for darihg' to maintain the liberty of (he press and finally vex the pute atmosphere with profane and polluting words startle the dull ear of night with frantic yells bowlings and trample tip der foot for thew3jaceoC five days aft law and order all fear of God and regard foreman calumniate the good abuse the i nnocentthreaten the weak assaiTthe defenceless and multiply slanders' and falsehoods the sands upon the sea shore This is modern recipe to allay etcitemeht discovered and administered by the friends of American slavery and of African colonization UhWbat calm philosophers I what wise contrivers what geniuses Is this in deed the mode to stop a)l agitation of the subject of sla very Why the infamous and terrifi transactions above alluded to will in one month make more excite njent'and create more discussion throughout the land foan a host Of anti slavery lecturer could do in half a dozen years They furnish themefor of the fifteen hunflred newspapers in ihe rypublic theyafe setting in motion ten millions of tongues on this continentand will movelwice ten millions in Eu rope frbm the child of six years to the grey haired sire of ejghty in every city town village and hamlet" they arcthe grand topic of pnd inquiry the mails tfjte destined to groan letters and publica tions giving details of these dastardly outrages fifteen hundred anti slaverysocietfes will be quickened to new hess of life by their commission thousand pulpits willApeak out in thunder tones against that system of lynch law slavery in consequence of theto things find mighty and indescribable is' to be the grow ing out of attempt ofcolonization'perse cutors and slaveholding tyrants ipput flown tion I Rejoice then friends of humanity advocates of tba oppressed seeing the crafty are token in their own craftiness and the fro ward arfl carried headlongl Jf bur God is cauringevcnjhc wrath of his enemies to praise him shall we not cry Xi Ji' 7T r(E7 We intended to continue our own sketch of the riotous proceedings id Philadelphia its witnessed by us iii jnak'ifig'robm fofthe indignant responses of public press and tbc'communicatiqnsof QW on thissubject we are driven into narnow limits ifieant for notice 1 tempt was' made in this city on rek to rct una mob to attack the' and its rejection oppressed usual' newspaper report of the doings of the Board j'" J' '1 ellow citizens have come reluctantly to the ap 1 prehension that there is not in our municipal Rulers due solicitude to measure out equal justice to such hold our unpopular sentiments'' We have' iri vain mdst respectfully asjkcd to know why we are notto be treated' like other citizens I We are now driven' to this appeal Do not however 'understand us as asking any thing at your hands! Our only wish is tojhave it pre 1 fcisely understood for the' sake of others far more than oufseltes how wef jare habitually treated jThe privi lege' 'of occupying aneuil Hall may not of itself be an important one J' but it 'important that' both in great andjsmall things! our rtilers 'should guard equally therighlsofall' 'Z ''J 1 rANCIS JACKSON fep 1 4 ESEWALL vu Edmund jackon 7 LLOYD GARRISON ELLIS GRAY LORING 4 GEORGE 'JACKSON1 tent AMES' WHiTEJ i GAMALIEL BRADORD A PEREZ GILL? (E7The foregoing speaks for itself The facts which it discloses are disgraceful Ao the tity authorities both as it respects the rejection of the petitiont aqd the treatment of the petitioners 'and: they prove the overshadowing influence of slavery among us How contemptible is newspaper report of of the petition abqve referred to! We do not think it important to enquir who is responsible' for! the omis sion but we cann suppose it altogether undesigned Not an order for pa ring a street or laying a drain can be passed without appearing punctually iu the pub lished proceedings if life Board while all notice of the reception the layin on the tableland the subsequentrejection of our'peti tion' belonging Ss ir docs to an ob jectwhich lies' at te' yry heart of the people of this at object for owhich sixty dr eighty thousand of herscit i to which her Legislature repeatedly setlhe'seal of its approbationjis dropt out of the' printed record of the Board as too tnsigni ay" A serious a I1 Thursday of last eek to get up a mob to attack the' Chapel dnringAhedelivery of the dedicatory sermon: that Placards were posted iri various parts of the cityjcal ling for a riotous assemblage rAc cbrdingly ithousam of persons assembled in front of the building tin th a very'4 large portion doubtless drawn i hither by motives' of There was a good leal of yelling but no violehce was done owing to the disheartening: factthnf the Mayor had ordered four light infantry companies to be in read 1 11 II In iwge ty to bc Jigbtljibantloned at th appearance of diflfcifltyT or timidly given the approach offlrihger We feel that God lias called us tojj th3 work and if it is hit purpose that we should finish what we have begun het can preserve usJ though it be asin the lionV dpn or the seven fold healed ifurnaee that he will deliver u' out of every danger and uphold txa by His free Spirit until 'all is accomplished that he has given us to do If' he has otherwiselorGAined and designs to permit the wicked to triumph for' 4 little season and the witnesses fojhis to be slam in the streets ofourityrwo shall have at least thesatisfaction of reflecting thati we fall nt the'post of duty our wounds in the breastnnd not the back and that he whose work w'aredoing 'canaiseupotHerJaboreto'A i to HcJr harvest whose seed 'we iwhose ffrowth our blood will have i We learn that a is represented to be of a highly respectable family arrested on Tuesday and taken before Al ip fderinariBinns charged with having Mi cerned in the recent destruction of Pennsylvania Hall Air and testified that he was in the Hall on Ahe'night of the conflagration and Ufa pri soner busily engaged tearing dwn the 'blinds and inciting others to the destruction of the building He has known prisoner for eight' or ten years and is postttvek'as to the in was bound over in oL three 'dollars for his appearance be'? "ford on rida v' at 12 o'clock i WadIn7 2W l1 4 7 Another person has since been arrested upon the i 'same chargcyatid held tobail f' In the name and by the authority of the Common 4 ar I X'L'fP BV JOSEPH RtTNES sAZl Governor of the said Commonwealth 4 A B1OCL AMOTION WHEREASIhaveleameilwfththeileepestregretV that the soil of Pennsylvania has been disgraced the rights of her peaceful citizens outraged and their proper ty destroyed by acts of lawless riotor the first time the orderly city of Philadelphia has become the theatre of scenes heretofore only contemplated ata distance asy' dangerous excesses on the part of others They have now been enacted in ottr midst and assumed a form the most destructive of property and domestic quiet the most inimical to individual rights and the most ruinous to social harmony and public order that can? be conceived The torch of the incendiary has beetf'applied by un masked violaters of law in the darkness of night in 'the heart of a crowded city and for the avowed pur pose of preventing the exercise of the constitutional and in valuable right of the freeTcommunieationof and And whereas if it be true that if even of opinion may be tolerated while reason is left free to combat the practice of corhbating supposed error with the firebrand or of punishing even crime without the established process of law must be the very essence of tyranny And whereas it is the duty of the magistrate to protect all in' the exercise' of their constitutional rights without respect to the question whether their respective objects hr or be not agreeable hijnself or others so long ras their deportment i peaceful and the object lawful' And whereas it is the duty of the Governor of this Commonwealth to take care that the laws be faithful 'r ly especially in cases where enormity trans cends the magnitude of comnon guilt Therefore for the purpose of promoting and securing 4S the apprehension of the wrong doers jn the premises I Joseph Ritner Governor of the said do hereby offer a reward of five hundred dollars for thess apprehension and conviction of each and every person engaged in the burning of the building called the Penn syl vania Hall in Sixth street in the city of Thiladel phia on the night of Thursday the 17th inst or in set i ting fire to the building called the asylum Thirteenth st in the said city on the night of riday I the eighteenth instant to be raid on the due conviction of each and every one of (he persons aforesaid 7 'yis' And all Judges" 'Justices Sheriffs Coroners Consta bles and other officers within this Commonwealth are and enjoined to be attentive' and vigi a lant in Inquiring after and bringing to justice jthe per I son or persons guiity of the crime aforesaid 3 Given under my hand and the'Great Seal of the i A State this twenty second day of May in the year Jia of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thir and ol the Commonwealth5 the sixty i isecond 4 Dy the Governor n'xrrtTir ur DTTvnnwc Secretary of the Commonwealth I 5 ir SsClyf 2000 DOLLARS REWARD ie Ma May 23 18381 ''The excitement growing out of the daring outrage against ihe having subsided I take the earliest opportunity of niaking known to my fellow rpy determination of adopting every means within my power to arrest and bring to trial those who so recklessly defied the Law I therefore hereby offer a reward of TWO TtfOUSAND DOLOlRSfor the and con viction of the vile perpetrator or perpetrators who on Thursday nightjast broke into and flred the Pennsylvania HalL 23 1838 JOHN SWIT Mayor nry In our opinion as well as that ol thousands 4 the of Philadelphia ought to be person 7 be sent' td prison and Sheriff Waimqugh is1 the sec iond for their conduct during the riot? 'iWhyMoes not some one have these 'men arrested' and claim the jie 7 sward offered as above J4 4 fTT Prompt and spirited Up with Liberty's Temple 1 PENNSYLVANIA 1 The friends of liberty of equality of civil rights and of free discussion are informed thata subscription list is opened sat No 307 Mulberry Street where all the friends xf freedom may subscribe towards the erec tionfofa new Hall i As' soon as the sum of fifty thousand dollars is sub jscribedand paid the Managers of the Pennsylvania Hill Association will proceed to erect another Hall si a larger and if possible more beautiful than the former in and by direction of the Board of Mana gers of the Pennsylvania Hall Association Sam vex Webb Treasurer 1 The following communication addressed to the Pres idents of the different ire Companies wasj read and accepted' at a' public meeting of those companies on Saturday evening'5 ''s 'The Association for the care of Colored Orphans take method of offering their sincere thanks to the ire of Philadelplua for their energetic and benevolent to preserve their property from destruction on "the night of the 18th inst and earnestly request theiq protection on behalf of the innocent and helpless committed to their I This being a Charitable institution having 'no con nection with' the Anti Slavery Society 1 On behalf'of the Association' (Signed) ELIZABETH PEARSON i Secretary for the day rom the Patterson Intelligencer Abolition like many others) in the country has at length bceflisgraced by an abolhion riot Bills were posted up in van ous pajts of the town the latter part of last week announcing that ad Abolition meeting was to be? held oh Monday evening the 21st inst at lhef NewMarlcet Church bat very little notice however was apparently taken of it at the time ji On the evening of the rnee jingi however some tfive or six hundred persdn'V aawe understand: gathered in fronlof and soon after commenced the work of destruction? by break fng in the windows doors stones which soon dispersed those inside Afterihese had retired the mob also soon dispersed with 7 out doing any more injury to the building But we do not wish to dwell on these painful ond disgraceful proceedings' However misjudg measures p( the abolitionists may be deemed tobe must be regretted thdi any por tion of aprofessedly free and intelligent commu nity should suffer themselves to be led to the perpetrauW bf flawless violence with a'yieyf toq prevent them? Even if itwerd jriot a violation of the 'sacred iightbf freedom bf opinion and free discussion but a mere auestion of policy a reflection would show'that all the ad Vantage gainefl on the side of ihcbolHiojistbf mflnt are the only fruits reaped byj thflho riotously oppose them' of the races: If from these fthe slaves) we fam to the free eotoc ed and black population we shall find still stronger idenc nd natural equality It consists ht an aavaaea msnt in knowledge and mental flevelopetxient canw ponding "with their advancement inpotilegcs As a class they are by no means respectable a the whites some of them are roots 'degraded than the sJAttt' but they can ntxmbermany highly esteemed and valoable citizcns It speaks much in ueir faTpr eon sidering the prejudice of the plantenptMt in nearly every colony they were admitted to tbeflriljights aha privileges! of the highest elassesTSey are round in the stations of mechamicsmorchants and magistrates also a mophpg oftho AtfemUWf and oil wWvimwiu A largfl 'proponion of lhe magistrates of the city of Kingston are colored and black men our members of the assembiyare gentlemen To one of whpm a wtU eflqcated and highly respectable mer chant of Kingston I am indebted for manynttentkns Some of them are men of wealth though they are' gen erally employed in the lower of fife where they obtain a mere competency There jtrt hosceverf favor people mho depend opon charity among tiboe tAm among the xhites by to mc They are able to carry on a profitable trade in the various departments of industrv and successfully toucan petd' either in price or skill with white people whoare engaged in the same business: Some of the most respectable mechan ics nrBridgetown and Kingston are negroes who own large establishments and employ workmen of their own j204y '(To support Jhis represen tatiqn Mr Hovey quote from a work entitled? Christianity and slacery by Arch deacon Eliot of fpltows tj biack3 have by their superior industry driven the lower order of whites from almost every trade requiring skilPund 'exertion I 'believe? that not onedautweniy of the working shoemakers in Barbadoes is a white wprianft' carpentei! masons tailors smiths fee are for the most part men of color and this at a time when large white population are ini the loroeet'siAtai'of pooortg of wrOehodnottiA the ap plication for casual 'charily the numberof whit per sons soliciting relief is i far greater lhaa4ht of free colored free black and colored inhabitants have always cBhtributedwttrir ftdl proportion to the parm chial taxes for the support yf the popr foile their own poorrtceive no parochial relief but 'yre fvpported by private contributions among the'more Wealthy" of their own colorU Why should they notbehe'Sitna'here when: freed and protetfted by laerf Nout tteeti ftar they will become a tax and burden on the tharity qf tbs whites SxjxyiQjimNpJIoBOKIathecpprse of an animated debate last week in Cwgttsi upon the spurious Sg Treaty with the Cherokees Mr Legare ofeSouth Car olina said admittingthe foci that the Treaty was made with a power incompetent to make it on the port of the tribe he wished to ask whether the tenns Treaty were Whether they had not got a 'good price for their lands country in exchange 'Jhis Mr Legare is one of the elite of fl southern chival and bf course a highminded and What a sacred regard for flustice and humanity la whether the CheroKtes re to be driven from their at the point of the bayonet in order to propitiate lhe land stealers of Grorgia whether they have given their' sanction to any treaty for their re moval or not whethhr tlieyaro protesting in ths most solemn and affecting language against being co erced into a distant wilderness provided they get what their rapacious persecutors chooser to Consider a good price for their latids theydiavt no' jflst cause of com plaint Atrocious logic Aft 4 a ScekcuEh OvT It is saidxhai CharlexG mney who formerly preached iu thcChatham street chapel 3 New York and is now at 0Ieriin styled Philadelphia 1 a aevire greey fwucniur wuiua no to perfect it is certain that the foul flendhas lately been disturbed in bjglptobero in that city aid feirtiracoTched out of his eeay aflat He if bestirring himself mightilyr this is a cheering for he comes down' in great wrath only when he knows that his time is short 3 jMuxDEx added to Aittf Absox The Philadel phia Daily dcus states that 'an1 aged coloredwoman died on Saturday nlgfit19ih ult: instant hearing the shouts of the fifob' ifi the neighborhood of where she resided srneWhere in Shippeh street She suffered considerably fluringlnenots in Southwark a few years ago and supposing shrwpjxlflbe massacred the effect was so great upon her mind that shexpired almost without: a' groan Everyoner therefore who participated in the recent riot or gave any countenance to it is chargeable with rthe guilt of murder It is a fearful thing to go with the multitudci to de viL 'Thkolooical Discussions xbur correspondent Oxx ga is mistaken in supposing that the Liberator is open qtheplogicalfliscussion andtberefoto we must decline inserting bfe communicpt ions' upon the Moral Law and the' Sabbath1 AU that we have ublishedpre lating to either of these 'subjects was extorted from us in 'self defence agaih'stthe malignant attdeks of the sign ers of the Clerical rotest The bccasion of this diver sion from the grand object 'of dor the abolition of American slavery having passed cattfay we ar not disposed to fenew a theotogical strife in ourcoU aniDs Ontega can have his manuscripts n' i i1' It seems by the following article that the jdktt ters of Barbadoe fully determined on having their dweliings prundere hndfiredjKeir plantation maddesolate anflejr owthrpa cpj ixv the 1st of August next by giving immediate emancipation to an their slaves 4 turning then! aft tta thatidsy Very especially as it is added that from allUj classes there is a general expressiotf of oy and COB gratulatidnih 6pprocMffgcataatrophe tv Verily the plaatersiaVi tinttared' with "abolition in sanity 'v Extract of a letter from xBatbadoes to' hcommettial house in this city dated3(hh April'i A In my last I alludeLto the prospect that the slaves apprentices' in this Island: would ttjfikde free ou the approachingTsi of It is now reduced taa 3 qertamty that snch will ife theeaser ThiCfovernC ia special mmHiucaXion theEtoilae'f Assembly some time since recommended the in the moat explicit jenns Jh $xecntiye aouiytil mMlh 17thi stant orit andaet forth their reasons as1 which I send you herewith3 Last of aUthe House Assembly on the 24th inst after having laboriously canvassed the whole Island to obtain possession bf the views and foci ings of their constituents apmifled wcOtdififitee widb instructions to bring in amllfor theeWlirrimancjpa tion of pH classes of slavery apprentices on the first August 1838? 'fl doubt' whether any measure vnsR passed in this Island has given xuen graer tion as this" I speak pot of theapprenticesti nf whnm ft mnntrards of wVm mV Saw anl earh is eefl Monofjoy ingratufatimJ Natom Ht (ET Read the admirable letters on our lasl pagUfino'hikheif1 disturbers of the Deace an era of the world upside down John Guincg Adams rancis James Qfrrit gmith JJheokreJDi Weld ani Beman WUl Liberty bjuxh to own these mem" as among her worthiest' to read also the young Smith and lh la mected WAfl A "S' HS 4 The town is in eommotion from an attempt' taassas sinate Gen Inginac on the' mornibg bfrtHe 2d The General was shot in bjs chpmher by a jjttffiap stated ta have been sent express from Leogane iTbe fisdl 4 ed his'neckfcoming out througlfhi? month 1 breaking bis under jaw A revolt ft is said took place this morning at Iogane Tbe Notfeaa? Guards are all under arms and great anxietpis tnapifesledbn all sides We hope however for a ppaceable result Tha 1 wound of Genjltiginac is supposed tobe' mortal (Ha stands next in 'rank and office ta President Boyer3 a1" 1 i wuLril '1 THE OURTH ANNUALMEETING of tile New Hampshire Anti Slavery Societywill by Maids oa Thursday the SEVENTH of'June toextaf te eock forenoon Church Sihl jOeuecgfl vww auxiliaryfloriety it is hopeh'wilbbe' ftflto represented nterai lt is the more necessary we itismuch as all notice of our petition of the Board i 1 disheartening: factrthnl the Mayor 4 iness with 10Q ball each at bells to put 'down the rioters Several persons were arrested by the lice officers and the next day sen tenced to pay fins fortheir misconduct Had' it not fcir the energet fe conduct of theMayor there is doubt that the Cha el would have been seriously daw 'WJ'yieu 'iMi 1 a iiii wrere Pmutmrmaarardy twain May 191838 1 PHILADELPHIA STILL UNDER THE CONTROL" A RUIAN COLONISATION MOB': 3 MvBEoraxaS 1 sent you ah aceount of the state of this city up to 4 riday May 17 After that date to the present time thefollowiag are some of the proceedings A large crowd of the moboeratic mercLantstmchanics and laborers urgefl on and inflamed by the slaveholders now in the city hadibeen stationed near the Hall during all riday About sunset thousands 'began to collect from all parts of the city stimulated by ruin 'southern kidnapper and colonizationisis prepared to go wher ever the spirit of Slavery and Colon izationi should' di rect and to do whatever works of plunder and death it should dictate' After aiimej in theevening bf ri daya rush' was made tb a school belonging to' Jacob 'Pierce in Cherry street: In this building foe Convention of had met during the day Of this fact the mob vfere aware but from ignorance some other cause they missed tha house The mob rushed on and probably through mistake5 burled stones at Wefoercl's actory They also slotted Grace Cltul dh TThey then surrounded the house of Edward Reedies 'corner of Twelfth anftace There they howled and roared for half an hqr Athe inmates of the hbiiseVtAing withincalni an collected putting their trust in'Gdl Thai nobl the friend of the oppressed Mary Needles had set put her tableland nbered it 'with food to fetf her cruel Jtne mies should they burst into the house Merchants uf Market street werci saifl "to be exciting their fury ngainst Edward Needles because he befriended the friendless' The cry was were colored people and amalgamators' lodged in the house but no flnjurywai done to: the house' or its inmates' though foe infuriated mob rayed and roared without Sevcral thou sands like the roaring of many aters't'J sr a time'the'mob started for foe Cede ored Orphans near a new not yet occu pied This they fircd and burnCpart ly downy when the firenefl appeared and extinguished fob fire' Col i onization as advocated by Elliot Cresson and that mao1 who tells us he is triled (for what 1 from his na tive'iand'Dr Sleigfi are determined that these dear outcast orphans shall have ho shelter herei Then the mob started away passed down Edward and Mary Needle's: As they passed it is Said that a custom house1 officer tore down one of the sign? of Edward Needles Without further particulars' thus a mob of thousands tfna wed and uncontrolled by the opposition of moral or physical power' went up ani down the' city working their will the' night though I cannot learn that any dariia'ge was'ddne to property 'or life riday nigKftThe moral cowardice of foe peace men of the city less conspicuous than foe recreant meanness of ilie and his posse 3 During the fdrenoonftof this day Saturday groups have been collected in various places! plotting destruc tion and private ibuildingsJ'' Our James Mottrand Edward Needles were particularly ebhdxidus bwihg to their firm andi noble stand inifavor of humanity and liberty Again I repeat' the civil authorities oS this city may be termed the the mayor SWIT the king of had Sworn to tha citizens and the citj This they might have done without a Tesorvto arms The mbmentany symptom of a mob appeared had the mayor and his posse' with a sufficient number of friends stood forth all clad in robes of peace and armed with the resistless power and energy of high moral daring thathall had been now standing and this city had hot been for three days and nights under the control of a drunk en infuriated mob "The blood thirsty kidnappers of the South would have cowered before them I The men stealers of the South armed with bowie knife and pistol in their moral degradation: and meanness would have quailed before the majesty of truth and forgiveness and the dignity and noble moral daring bf their stern rebukers But the mayor and his posse did no such thing Are they not perjured John Swift demanded the key of the hall The key wasgiven to him 3 He promised to protect the'hall How did he redeem his promise He made a coturfeps 7 LJ 'which they cheered him he gracefully bowed to Sla very1 and Colonization bid thpnpb farewell: for the night and therf the mob went nt the' work of destruc tion assuring one another that ihe mayor was ontlieir side and hated the abolitionists asPmucli asthey'did The mayor was recreant to his oath of office aol that he did riot resort to arms and pour out the life's blood of bis fellow citizens likewaterbut that he used no means to prevent the mob and no moral resistance to quell it when aroused can but think that the burning of that hall the triumph bf The deliverance of the city into the power o( kidnappers and their agents may be traced to)he mayor and his posse because they might have prevented the mob swithouf blbodshtdut did bob The'civil authoritfes of Philadelphia have ap peared toW as the willing tools of southern menstealers and calonizationists in casting this city into foe power of themob and in the destruction of that beautiful kidnapping ministers khd ranters of i the smith now in the city have said southern institutions mqst not bfe discussed Philadelphia In effect the city authorities responded Nd the abolitionists shall not discuss them in this city We will burn down their hall 'Nd wonder Is not Col Johnson of Va a slaveholder tZls he not' now in this city Is not he mayor ntimately connected with him Are there not many kidnapping ministers in this city met in foe Old School General Assembly of a'ltidnappingmapslealing church a slaveholder at their head The wishes of such men are not to be slighted by an unprincipled doughface and man pleaser 'Human government based bh violence A'magistrate invested with discretionary power over life JLet no man after this talk of the protection bf the swoni: So far from affording protection! should rather jfiave tKrtflvn'invself into the hands of the mobobnoxious as fl'' I became to them' have fallen info theharids0 the mayor and the civil' authorities of Philadelphia My me from life vio lence 'of the mob but save me from grasp bf that poo? tborbf 'Sbuthertf the especially when guided by the dictation of southern kidnappers I would fear tojask protection of the civilformilitary when protection is to given by butch'efing'my deluded brother The' mob 1 may pour out my blood and scatter' my brains 'if they choose but none 'shall injure a hair of their heads if I can help it or three days aiid nigHts this city has been iike'a raging volcano and up heave os 'by earthquake But thanks toHea ven rather tbicivil authorities 'have bas'd and meanly brawled away into their 'hiding' plas iwhile the minister and Christians of every name have skulked away afraid toe suffer and die for the cause of his atidwhile we have been given over to the pleasure of a fu ribusfnTob no moral in our the peace of God has been' in some hearts Some have been prepared to die non resisting I bless God that had as yet sufficient brute'feroohy and toiresortrto arms toqudl the'lbobib Lord reigns? let the earth rejoice' In bim will trust'' fl Zfl URTHER PARTICULARS? 07 i Pni LADEWHi May2dth Sunday nbou? My Rrotheh: ft! Since Saturday 12 the city has ebntihued in thehands ofthe though threats have been more numerous and 'bloody than deedsi tBut few Satur day collected around foe HallthaflwasnowSi smoul dering rain groups' collected' iflVaridus parts of the city openly laying their plans fpElbe night1 printing offices ofthe Ledger and Joiimal werqjhobbed and several private houses of the most conspicuous friends of humanity and equal loud anT frequent were agninstEdward nnd Mary Needles? They had been mindful to entertain stran gers' colored as weil as white Garrisbn among the rest and ytelf whom these' mbbbcrats aCcusc of call ing Washington a robber because fie held man image oftJod ai chattel an article of and' Being seen waiting brethren and sisters of a dflrker skin than my own At 4 MI th firemen'and tbther citizens held a meeting in lndependent squari xTfie meeting adjourned with out doing any thing 4ecause not called iff A banner to suit foe whims of th firemen to ueet al 8 in 'isnv.